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Japanese ad and media giant Dentsu is cutting its forecast for 2019 (although it doesn’t specify to what) following a disappointing first half when revenue was marginally up but organic growth went into reverse: 1.5 per cent for the company ...

A lot can change in ten years and nearly ten years ago the launch of Barton F. Graf in New York was big news. Founder Gerry Graf (below) had held top creative roles at BBDO, TBWA Saatchi & Saatchi and ...

Here’s Coca-cola’s new effort for the Premier League season, Saatchi & Saatchi updating a previous ad to welcome Premiership newbies Norwich (via the excitable Delia Smith), Sheffield United and Aston Villa (Prince William’s team apparently – will he be going ...

Not so long ago adam&eveDDB had the same effect on UK adland as shock and awe – endless winning pitches and a stream of campaigns that, if not matching the great CDP and BMP of yore in stretching boundaries, left ...

Former Ogilvy London CEO Charlie Rudd, now ensconced as head of conjoined Publicis agencies Leo Burnett and Fallon, has made his first major move, hiring strategist Olly Markeson from Richard Branson’s in-house operation and creative director Jodo Paulo Testa from ...

London-based marcoms group MSQ Partners has upped its profits nearly 50 per cent to £5.9m and grown turnover ten per cent to £82.3m in 2018. MSQ, which recently secured investment from PE firm LDC valuing it at £37.5m, owns creative ...

I see that London agency BBD Perfect Storm has picked picked up some global work, maybe all the work, for Unilever’s Dove Men+Care, previously handled by Ogilvy. As such it’s a big feather in the cap for the UK indie. ...

More from Community Films’ web series Commercials, this time showing three clients who appear to love a pitch idea so much they almost wet themselves. And then.. People do this for a living? All the time it seems..

We haven’t always been a fan of Paddy Power’s various ad stunts but its new wheeze with VCCP Blue – ‘unsponsoring’ – is timely and funny. Just about every Premiership club has a betting sponsor plastered over its front – ...